River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-26
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German chemist Thomas Weigler.

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names. Ii was first suggested by the
German chemist Thomas Weigler.
TO CLEAN 4 PAPERED WALL.
Take loaf of stale bread
rye bread is the best cut in into six
or eight pieces. and, taking piece
begin at the top of the wall and rub
gently downward, going over the entire
wall in this way, and the paper will be
well cleaned and greatly improved. Be
fore beginning operations use bellows
to blow off the loose dust. II grease
spots appear put blotting paper over
them, and press with a hot flatiron.
Another excellent way to clean wall
paper is to put about two quarts of
wheat bran in a coarse flannel bag and
rub the wall with ii as directed. Such
an application win make thepaper look
almost like new.
HOW To faint BUTTER.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker says: worked at place where
the milk was set in pans in one corner,
piled on the flour, one above the other.
The stove was at one side of the pans,
and at the other a place was made for
old boots aud shoes. One pair of rubber
boots were particularly offensive. They
were placed with the others at times,
and whenever this was done the odor
was plainly perceptible in the butter.
This was not pleasant experiment,
but il was remarkably forcible. There
are hundreds of kitchens where butter
is made under such circumstances.
A writer in the American Dairyman
gives his experience: A few weeks ago
we saw a large dairy farmer. whose
butter brings a price high above the
market, cartingout manure. The carts
went within sixty feet of the dairy, and
so they were covered with hay caps, or
canvas covers, which enabled them to
pass and make very little smell. A gem
tleman farmer has been furnishing a
fashionable district in this city with
really most excellent butter from his herd
of fancy cows, the demand for the butter
was in excess of the supply and-'the
goose hung high" Suddenly the but
ter was way-way off. What could
the matter be? The grass fields near
the dairy had been MANFRED and the
butter had taken the OdOr straight TO
the tables of the city consumers. So
we live and learn. but experience is
rough teacher sometimes.
HEMP AND FLAX.
The large amount of binder Irvine
used by self-binding harvesters has
raised the brice of hemp. and it is quite
likely that increased culture Of both
hemp and flax will result. 1t is long
since Western New York grew much
flax. 1t is hard on land, and especially
so under the old processes of rotting
the fibre in running streams where its
valuable manurial properties were
washed away. BY newly invented
a large amount of fibre can be
got from the stalk and the remainder
which contains much gluten, can be
used for manure. The seed is valuable
for feeding after all its oil mas been
and when fed to any kind of
stock make rich manure. Flax and
hemp both require very rich soil. but
if the oil meal from the seed is fed at
home most of the fertility required in
growing the crop may be retained on
the farm. The making of Irvine re-
quires less labor than the manufacture
Of finer fabrics, and it should seem that
this essential for securing our harvests
ought TO be furnished at home.
HAND GARDEN FLOW.
1t will pay anyone having a fourth
acre of garden to have hand pillow. as
BY its use three-fourths of the hoeing
can be saved. have used different
kinds, and have not been without one
for twenty-five years, but have discard
ed all complicated arrangements of
knives. harrOws and cultivator teeth,
and now use but two tools on my pillow,
anu never but one at q time. These
are small share or turning pillow and
a little bull tongue not more than an
inch wide. fiud it is easier and does
better work to go twice rapidly across
the garden than to try to work 4 wider
space and go once laboriously through.
The secret of good work in the gar
len is to cultivate at the right time,
which is Just as soon after a rain as the
and can be worked, and the OF eat
value of the hand pillow is that it enables
1ne to do the work so quickly that it
Fan be done at the best time. | can
break the crust on an acre of garden
with one of these implements in two
hours, but it would take two or three
men a day with hoes to do it. When
one of these implements is to be used.
everything must be planted in rows the
length of the garden.
FOR THE FARMER.
Fowls will eat a great deal of granu-
lated charcoal. As n preventive Of dis
ease it is invaluable.
in sowing small seeds of feeble growth
for growing plants cover by sprinkling
earth on them with seive and then
press it down gently with the back of
oe or shovel.
The old time yields of 800 or 400
bushels of potatoes per acre were most
y grown on clover sod freshly plowed
down. Better not lose sight of so good
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